Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

11.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

28.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De